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Some of Washington’s diplomatic outposts in Asia are raising millions for events to mark the 250th independence anniversary. One ambassador offered to sing.

President Trump has engaged in a spree of self-aggrandizement unlike any of his predecessors, making himself an inescapable force at home and around the world.

South Carolina’s state legislature is one of 17 that is moving to handcuff state agencies at a moment of tectonic changes in energy, technology and finance.

Funding for the department has lapsed amid a standoff over restrictions that Democrats have demanded for immigration agents. But much of its work continues.

As the U.S. message veered from shared heritage and values to shared interests and back again, Europeans wondered what kind of alliance they were left with.

Members of Congress said that President Trump’s coveting of Greenland had left a mark, even as they expressed hope for a less bellicose approach to foreign relations.

The U.S. men’s hockey team beat Germany to claim the No. 2 seed in the tournament, while the speedskater Erin Jackson finished fifth in the women’s 500-meter race.

These animations show how the halfpipe competitions again raised the bar for what’s possible on a snowboard.

A stretch of freezing days and nights claimed the lives of a grandmother, a dancer, a dispatcher and a man who lived among a colony of feral cats.

The artificial intelligence frenzy is creating personal fortunes rarely seen in modern technology and changing attitudes about fairness and money in relationships.

You’d think a financial planner married to another financial planner would have it easy come tax time. Alas, no.